METHOD FOR INDIVIDUAL PREDICTION OF INTRANATAL FOETAL DEATH Russian patent published in 2016 - IPC A61B5/00 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: obstetric patients when admitted to maternity department are examined to detect any factors having an effect of the gestation course, outcome of pregnancy and labour. Social-biological factors, previous general medical and obstetric-gynaecological history, extragenital diseases, special aspects and complications of the current pregnancy, special aspects of labour course and management, foetal health, clinical-laboratory and instrumental findings, treatment-induced defects accompanying the current pregnancy and labour are taken into account. The related prognostic coefficients are specified in points in accordance with the intranatal foetal death expectancy table and marked with the sign "+" if the factor has an aggressive behaviour, and with the sign "-" provided the protective factor behaviour. The total score of the derived prognostic coefficients is provided. If the above total score is "+13 points or more", the intranatal foetal death is predicted. If the total score of the prognostic coefficients is "-13 points of less", no intranatal foetal death is predicted.

EFFECT: method enables the exact, objective and effective prediction of the intranatal foetal death taking into account the most important patient-specific risk factors.

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